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lauren e💙 @learls.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

A busy Common Eastern Bumblebee collects pollen from a Hosta flower for @grays.art 's #FlyDay. Hope you're having a lovely Friday afternoon/evening🪻 #PurpleFriday #ECK #bloomscolling #Bugsky #bee #insect #photography #photographersofbluesky #Michigan

A black and yellow Common Eastern Bumblebee collects the pollen from the anther of a purple hosta flower hanging downward from a green stem cutting across the top right corner diagonally. Two more flowers hang downward from the same green stem, and 2 more flowers on the stem at the top left are oriented sideways The background is blurred gray brick.

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lauren e💙 @learls.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

A #Mallard enjoying his swim in a local pond for @robcrank68.bsky.social 's #BirdoftheDay #BathTime. The Alt theme today is #Finches, any of the finch species will do. Hope you're enjoying/have enjoyed your Thursday✨ #ECK #Birding #bird #photography #photographersofbluesky #Michigan

A Male Mallard, sideways and facing left mid-photo, shakes off water after submerging. His bottom and wings are raised, and his neck and head jut forward. Water droplets caught in mid-air frame his body. The foreground is his shadow/reflection underneath him, and gray pond water. The background is blurred light blue and gray pond water.

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lauren e💙 @learls.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

A White-faced Meadowhawk waits patiently for unwitting prey to fly by. You wouldn't know to look at him, but he is a fierce predator of other flying insects. Wishing you all a lovely Wednesday✨ #ColorADay #RedWed #WingsWednesday #ECK #BugSky #insect #photography #photographersofbluesky #Michigan

A White-faced Meadowhawk (Sympetrum) sits facing the camera, angled to the right, atop a cluster of small pink flowers on a blurred green stem. The background is another blurred stem to the left, larger blurred pink flowers on the right, and the blurred green of many more leaves and stems.

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lauren e💙 @learls.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

It can be easy to miss the beauty of everyday things🤎 Appreciating the beauty of this pensive #Robin today for @robcrank68.bsky.social 's #BirdoftheDay #Orange, any bird with a shade of orange in it. Alt theme is #Reflections, any bird casting a reflection. #ColorADay #BlueTue #ECK #photography

An American Robin stands in the foreground in green grass facing the camera with its head turned slightly to the right as it gazes into the distance. The background is blurred green grass, dried brown plant leaves and stalks, and a glimpse of blue gray pond water.

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lauren e💙 @learls.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

What would a 4th weekend pool party be without some ducks? 🇺🇸 For @robcrank68.bsky.social ‘s #BirdoftheDay #Quackers (alt theme is #Swans), and @grays.art ‘s #FlyDay, our resident Mallards🦆 #ECK #ducks #ducklings #photography #photographersofbluesky #Michigan

A mama Mallard stands in the left foreground on a light gray pool deck, looking right. 5 ducklings lie on a pink and purple towel; 4 of them looking at her, while the 5th, closest to her, looks away. Behind them is green grass and a black fence.Below them is a blue pool liner.

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lauren e💙 @learls.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

The last vestiges of a beautiful summer day☀️ Pausing to reflect tonight on 250 years of Democracy...may it prevail despite it's many current challenges. Happy 4th weekend to all who celebrate✨🇺🇸 #ColorADay #YellowThu #ECK #goldenhour #photography #photographersofbluesky #BellevilleLake #Michigan

A silhouetted pontoon boat just left of mid-center comes in to dock at Belleville Lake in Michigan at the end of a summer day at golden hour. The sun sinks behind the silhouetted tree line just right of center surrounded by it's yellow corona on top. Orange sun flares below it reach almost to the gray and blue lake water.

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lauren e💙 @learls.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

For @robcrank68.bsky.social 's #BirdoftheDay #RedBeakFeetEyes, 3 Turkey Vultures hanging out at the beach. The alt theme today is #Paridae, any species will do. Wishing you a lovely Wednesday🌊 #WingsWednesday #WaterWednesday #ECK #birds #photography #photographersofbluesky #Florida

3 Turkey Vultures stand on a sandy gray beach. The one on the left is bending to eat something on the ground, the middle turkey is turned to the left and looking over it's shoulder at me, and the one on the right is turned to the left and looking out over the water. The mid and background is vague shallow tidewater, the white foam of a small breaking wave stretching across the entirity of the photo, and the seafoam ocean at the very top. Blurred white and gray seagulls have collected in the right midground.

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lauren e💙 @learls.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Good morning, Susan!☕ We're headed to 98 degrees this afternoon! Here's a squirrel trying to get out of the heat yesterday🐿️. How are your eyes today? Hopefully, better😊

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lauren e💙 @learls.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

For @robcrank68.bsky.social's #BirdoftheDay #BestofJune, two of our June residents: a mama Mallard and one of her ducklings. Happy #BlueSkyMonday💙 #MallardMonday #ECK #ducks #birds #photography

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lauren e💙 @learls.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

Good morning, dear Susan!☕️ I will be spending this weekend helping move my son, Cameron to his new place in a nearby city. I’m so happy that he’ll only be 20 minutes down the road! I’ve attached a picture of him at closing with his new key. How are you? How’s your weekend looking?

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lauren e💙 @learls.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

A Brown Pelican sailing through Friday and into the weekend for @alan678.bsky.social's #BirdoftheDay #GreyDay, any bird with grey in it's plumage, and alt #ShowOff. Happy Friday✨ #FlyDay #ECK #Pelican #bird #birding #photography #photographersofbluesky #Florida

A Brown Pelican flies, angling left with outstetched wings, over a calm seafoam-colored Atlantic Ocean, against a clear light blue sky, on a sunny afternoon, in Florida.

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lauren e💙 @learls.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Love your 2-fer🤍 I'll match you with one of mine: the 3rd in a series of battling Snowy Egrets. #BirdoftheDay #Touchdown and Alt #White #TidesOutTuesday #Twosday #ECK #birds #photography #Florida

2 battling Snowy Egrets in a blue ocean. One on the right has touched down, and is waiting, wings arched behind him, for the one on the left, still airborn, wings at his side, folded slightly inward, descending. Both have beaks open, There is a small breaking wave on a diagonal near the top right corner and behind them.

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lauren e💙 @learls.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

The two remaining baby Robins, a bit bigger, and getting ready to fly for @alan678.bsky.social 's #BirdoftheDay alt theme #Passerine. The main theme today is #Raptors. Hope you're having a lovely Saturday☀️🍃 #BlueSkyArtShow #curve #ECK #birds #Robins #photography #photographersofbluesky #Michigan

The two remaining baby Robins sit in the nest they're fast outgrowing; one is facing up and right, the other faces left in the upper third of the photo. Below them is their elaborate brown and tan nest of mostly twigs sitting on a gray drainpipe, angling up and to the left. A small triangle of blurred green tree leaves is seen in the bottom left corner, and the gray brick and outer wall of a home make up the right side.

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lauren e💙 @learls.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

A Florida sunrise and small welcoming commitee for @alan678.bsky.social 's #BirdoftheDay #Moments, a capture you consider to be an interesting moment. The main theme today is #Black, birds with mainly black plummage. Good morning, friends☀️ #ColorADay #YellowThu #ECK #photography #Florida

A gull standing in shallow navy blue surf in the center forground and some scattered gulls on the far right, along with some flying gulls in the distance just above the horizon, great a new day at first light. A wide horizontal stretch of orange sky meets the blue ocean. Above that is a yellow layer, then blue. The shallow surf that meets charcoal beach sand reflects the orange light in the bottom right corner.

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lauren e💙 @learls.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

Do all the good you can, by all the means you can, in all the ways you can, in all the places you can, at all the times you can, to all the people you can, as long as you ever can --R.J. Palacio #ThickTrunkTuesday #AlphabetChallenge #WeekXforXyloid #EastCoastKin #ECK #photography #Michigan

Taken in April at a local park in Livonia Michigan just after budreak from a ground perspective, are a few deciduous trees reaching skyward. In the center is the most prominent tree, whose top most trunk and branches are framed by a white sun and it's corona. On the left side of the photo are many leaves from a distance and several thin reaching trunks. On the right side, a few veined green leaves stand out prominently in the foreground against a background of more distant leaves and sky.

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lauren e💙 @learls.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Good morning, friends! Though not theme perfect, I couldn’t resist posting this recent shot of 3 baby Robins in their cozy nest for #BirdoftheDay #Nesting, birds carrying nesting material. The alt theme today is #Paridae, any of the species. #EastCoastKin #birds #Robins #birding #photography

3 baby Robins, beaks up, wait for their mom in an elaborate nest wedged against a grey brick and wood wall on the right, and on top of a grey drainage pipe. The grey underside of a roof is above them, and a small patch of blurred blue sky and green leaves appears in the bottom left corner.

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lauren e💙 @learls.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

A lone Mallard in early spring for #BirdoftheDay alt theme #LivingLandscape, a single bird as part of a wider natural scene. The main theme today is #TheGathering, images showing flocks, colonies, or communal behavior. Hi, friends! #AlphabetChallenge #WeekWforWater #EastCoastKin #photography

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lauren e💙 @learls.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Love is not a contract nor a bargain for a guarantee of time Yet I chose it, anyway, and all it would bring knowing the math of life, the cruel design *For more, see Alt I lost my best girl today🐈 I will see you in a little while, friends, after taking a necessary respite to grieve✨ #Cats #ECK

that years were few, and moments fleeting,
that one day your small body would not lie next to mine,
and that silence would replace your comforting voice

You were a precious ephemeral warmth
who I had the serendipity and great privilege to know
You and I shared a gentle space
to which I’ll fondly cling, forever
And with your passing, another gift:
the joy of seeing wounds heal, with time
and the ability to find beauty in transient rhyme
--le

Shiya e
July 13, 2008-April 29, 2026

This is a previously posted close-up of Shiya, a senior gray, creme, and white Tabby cat with big green eyes and lots of white whiskers.

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lauren e💙 @learls.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

Look out below! A third photo in my series of two Snowy Egrets battling for territory for #BirdoftheDay #WellTimed. Alt theme today is #WeatherWarriors; birds in any weather. Have a lovely #TwosDay✨ #ColorADay #BlueTue #ECK #EastCoastKin #birds #photography #photographersofbluesky #Florida

2 Snowy Egrets battle in and above a very blue Atlantic Ocean in January., 2026 One hovers, head down, wings extended up in a broken V, while the other waits below, for the clash, head up, wings extended outward. Surrounding them on all sides is a particularly blue ocean on a cold, sunny January day.

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lauren e💙 @learls.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

The mountains stack themselves like daunting thoughts Their edges soften with distance, their weight is hidden in the hush #Scape #BWFri #ECK #photography #photographersofbluesky #Sedona #Arizona

A black and white photo of a dessert path and some scrub plants, ascending to the left, culminating at an evergreen taking up the mid and upper left side. A dark ridge and lower part of a butte take up the mid and upper right side. In the distance are some stacked mountain ridges which appear lighter with more distance, and textured horizontal, textured clouds.

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lauren e💙 @learls.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

For @alan678.bsky.social and @robcrank68.bsky.social's Alt #BirdoftheDay #RestingBeakFace, a moody (aren't they, frequently?) #SnowyEgret. The main theme today is #insectivores, any bird whose diet consists of mainly insects. #ColorADay #YellowThu #ECK #bird #BirdSky #photography #Florida

A Snowy Egret, head down, squares off with me and my camera on a pebble-strewn beach. Shallow gray-blue ocean water makes up the background

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lauren e💙 @learls.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

If anyone is in the #AnnArborMichigan area on May 3rd, I’d love to see you at the #SEMFA Flute Choir spring concert🌷🪈🎶

The SEMFA Flute Choir Concert flier pictures 17 women holding C, Alto, and Bass flutes, and one woman, on the far left, standing behind a Contra Bass flute. I am standing in the top right, in the last row, among other standing flutists. There is a middle row and a front of seated flutists. A wood floor makes up the foreground and lower mid-ground.

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lauren e💙 @learls.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

Winter, spring, summer, or fall All you’ve got to do is call And I’ll be there, yes I will You’ve got a friend —James Taylor #ColorADay #YellowThu #InsectThursday #ECK #macro #BugSky #photography #photographersofbluesky #Michigan

A Great Black Wasp clings to a Goldenrod stem on the right side of the photo, while a tiny bee in the top left corner flies toward it. Many Goldenrod blooms fill up the entire foreground underneath the wasp. The background is made up of vague, blurred green foliage and more Goldenrod blooms.

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lauren e💙 @learls.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

Here's a congregation of #Ibises and their reflections for alt #BirdoftheDay #WhattheFlock. The main theme today is #Petals&Perches. Have a beautiful Tuesday, friends✨ #ColorADay #BlueTue #TidesOutTuesday #ECK #birds #BirdSky #photography #photographersofbluesky #Florida

Six Ibises, their white reflections, and some random scattered gulls stand in calm, shallow blue ocean water. The water spans the entire photo. On the right side are patches of foamy water that were, minutes before, small gentle waves reaching the shore. In the top left are white and gray verical reflections of unseen buildings.

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lauren e💙 @learls.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

This week I finished Night Watch by Jayne Anne Phillips 2023, 276 p. I loved this book! For a synopsis, see Alt #BlueBrewBooks

This is a Pulitzer Prize-winning story of a family during and after the Civil War who represent many like them who struggle(d) with the consequences of trauma and its aftermath. The main characters are a 12-year-old girl, her mother whose traumas have rendered her incapable of caring for herself or her children, her Irish grandmother and her magical ways, and her father, a sharp-shooter in the war who has suffered a traumatic brain injury. It is a beautifully written saga of survival, resilience, chance, fate, and the bonds of love. Highly recommend!

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lauren e💙 @learls.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

Five little Sanderlings for Alt #BirdoftheDay #Waders. The main theme today is #FeederFriends. Have a lovely Friday✨ #FlyDay #Scape #BirdSky #birds #photography #Florida

Five gray and white Sanderlings wade at different angles all facing left in shallow blue and gray ocean water on a bright spring day, their reflections underneath them. Directly behind them is the white foam of a small breaking wave, and deeper ocean.

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lauren e💙 @learls.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

The very least you can do in your life is figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope. Not admire it from a distance but live right in it, under its roof --Barbara Kingsolver, Animal Dreams #ColorADay #YellowThu #ECK #EastCoastKin #GoldenHour #photography #Florida

Golden hour. A just risen yellow sun hovers over navy-gray Atlantic Ocean, hidden partially by scattered gray clouds, their undersides glowing orange. Yellow sunbeams fan out diagnonally to the left and right. In the foreground is a reflective shallow tidal pool and a geometric pattern in the covered sand.

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lauren e💙 @learls.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

Very welcome, and thank you, Belle!😻 This is Shiya enjoying the sun quite a few years ago (she was a much bigger girl then:)

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lauren e💙 @learls.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

A purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved —Kurt Vonnegut Wishing you a lovely Thursday☀️ #ColorADay #YellowThu #EastCoastKin #ECK #GoldenHour #photography #photographersofbluesky #Florida

A yellow just risen sun sits center photo surrounded by yellow-lit clouds. Pink-orange clouds and wispy gray-blue clouds fan out from it and hover above it. The gray-blue Atlantic Ocean below it reflects all the colors of the sky.

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lauren e💙 @learls.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

If you see this guy, it could be a good omen🤞 Some N. American indigenous tribes believe #TurkeyVultures are spirit animals who transform death into new life, and teach us to let go of things that don't serve us. Alt #BirdoftheDay #RareEncounters (main theme today is #Warblers) #ECK #photography

A Turkey Vulture flies, it's wings in it's characteristic dihedral position, againt a white background.

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